Singapore Art Museum (SAM) opens the fourth edition of the SAM Mini Mobile Museum. Featuring Slander! by multidisciplinary artist Jeremy Sharma, the exhibition features a presentation of his research into Singapore’s films and popular culture of the 1950s and 1960s, and visitors can rediscover the golden era of Singapore and Malayan Cinema. Image Credit: Artist Jeremy Sharma; image courtesy of Singapore Art Museum
Using a system of modular structures with themes that recur in Sharma’s practice, drawing on digitised images from films as well as texts and objects, Slander! explores how our contemporary selves may very much be shaped by history. The exhibition will be first presented at Woodlands Regional Library until 25 July, followed by Jurong Regional Library until September, and Tampines Regional Library until 31 October 2021.
Image Credit: Artist Jeremy Sharma; image courtesy of Singapore Art Museum
Alongside Slander!, SAM will also be organising complementary programmes including A Date with SAM, an online conversation with the artist and curator; and Kopi, Teh and Contemporary Art, a virtual guided tour specially designed for seniors. Children may also create their own artwork-inspired film strip as a take-home activity.
As an artist and musician, Jeremy Sharma’s works and experiments look into scenes and places through the lens of modernity, while employing elements of voice, light, atmospheres, film, music, movement and architecture. His practice examines our relationship with the information age and is situated within the everyday. More recently, the artist has produced installations involving sound, performance, and moving images, with a particular interest towards cultural archives. This can be seen in the making of Slander!, where Sharma revisits a range of films shot and produced in Singapore from 1958 to 1963, the post-war period between the heyday of Singapore’s film industry and Singapore’s eventual independence.
Held in partnership with the National Library Board, the Mini Mobile Museum introduces the multifaceted nature of contemporary art through a selection of artworks from SAM’s collection, adapted for non-museum spaces and created by Southeast Asian artists.
To find out more, visit www.singaporeartmuseum.sg
